Siddharth Jobs do not appear because they are morally preferred. They appear when someone can be paid to produce value. Voluntary transactions are not exploitation.

SgtPotshot @SuckCowgirlTits on the first day god said "let there be light" and James may said "a bit bloody bright"

imagine the smell

It’s not Bhutan, it’s Buddhism. Buddhists have top-tier PR. They get to commit ethnic cleansings with impunity (eg Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Burma, etc). The controversial and “atavistic” parts of their religious practices are ignored (how many people know that Burma has a cow

I swear, the next time some Fox-Mustang-loving matcha-latte-drinking hipster tells me that SUVs all look alike…

Open the borders. NOW.

At least we still have our twin towers standing

In many ways, my life does conform to the stereotypes associated with Asian-Americans. I will not be touching on those in my novel, as it is a work of fiction, not autobiography. It will be set in the year 5000 on roboplanet Lavatron.

Well you see one of the worst people on earth melted down in a physics kind of sense and then a lot of other worst people in the world melted down in a psychological kind of sense.

Randomvichar Harmeet follows her. This is making more sense. There is no Wisconsin husband.

Look, Americans actually have a right to do this. Pretty much EVERY country with the exception of Russia and China is a tiny country compared to the United States. Non-Americans often forget just how vast the US is.

Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛ Let U the forgetful functor that embeds every formal expression into natural language. Then F⊣UF \dashv U F⊣U is its left adjoint — the free functor with the diagram. The assertion is that F exists.

So tired of these schadenfreude stories We get it: you don’t like Dubai for whatever reason but taking glee from the fact that a nation has been pulled into a war it never asked for or wanted says more about you than it does about Dubai. Khalas.

Paul Theroux (father of documentary-maker Louis Theroux) wrote about taking the "Hippie Trail" in his book 'Grand Railway Bazaar', describing how he found the actual hippies, leftists and vegetarians he met on-route to be authoritarian, humourless & contemptuous of the locals.

Singapore's success is a testament to the Western legal system, not to traditional East Asian values which, if it needs to be said, are absolutely horrendous and viciously totalitarian. Even by the point of the Meiji Restoration, Japan was sort of East/West fusionist.

You blocked me so I couldn’t reply, which is a cowardly move. However. About half of that 15% actually comes from DOMESTIC travel, while about 4% of that is from Singaporeans crossing the Causeway, which doesn’t really count as international tourism in my view.